1.4
- Filter Gallery: It has never been so easy to find the best filter for your needs! This new dialog features previews, categories and search.
- Modular grids & improved axonometric grids: Set the grid angle by ratio for isometric designs and use modular grids to plan layouts and make icons!
- Swatches dialog and palette file handling improved: Access dialog layout controls quickly, search for colors, and open different palette file formats!
- Unified font browser preview: Activate it in the preferences to quickly browse through your font collection. Try it out and give your feedback!
- Customizable handles: Power users with CSS knowledge can now customize the styling and basic shape of all the handles!
- Fast image clipping with the Shape Builder: Clip your raster graphics into multiple sections using the Shape Builder!
- Affinity Designer File Import: Handle files from your colleagues, and don't lose your own contents when you can't access the program they were made with anymore!
- Support for internal links in exported PDF files: Help people navigate the files you created!
- A whole new icon set: Enjoy more than 500 new icons in the Dash theme!
- There's even more: faster extensions, new templates for folding booklets, additional options in Ruler and Taper Stroke LPE, new keyboard shortcuts, changed node deletion behavior, preview in Spray tool, many new command line options, more supported color palette formats (e.g. CIELAB, Adobe Color Book and Adobe Swatch Exchange), updated translations, many bug fixes
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1.3.1
- more than 30 crash/freeze fixes, many of which affected PDF import and Live Path Effects
- a new feature to disable snapping to grid lines, while still snapping to grid intersections
- a new feature to split text into its letters (characters), while keeping the kerning (letter distances) intact
- the Shape Builder tool now creates an appropriate number of nodes
- activating a layer in the Layers dialog no longer requires you to double-click to enter the layer on the canvas to be able to work in it
- no more auto-expanding layers in the Layers dialog when only activating them, and improved behavior on deleting and moving layers
- right-clicking now applies the change to the selected object, not to whatever group it is in
- the Page tool's size field no longer refuses to be edited
- improved handle visibility with dark desk colors
- multiple improvements for converting text objects to a path
- PDF files that could not be opened with Inkscape 1.3 can now be opened / imported again
- the English terms for Live Path Effects can now be searched for even if you use Inkscape in another language, so you can better follow tutorials
- on macOS, and many current Linux distributions, gradient dithering is now available
- there exists a workaround that users can apply when they are experiencing missing user interface fonts on macOS ('tofu')
- 3 fixes for extension bugs
- 16 improved user interface translations
- some small updates for the included tutorials and the man page
- and almost 40 more bug fixes!
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1.3
PDF import rewritten
- Inkscape’s PDF importer has undergone an overhaul.
You’ll find a new dialog with an overview of what Inkscape will do with each font it finds in your PDF, and more.
Node deletion logic changed
- Deleting nodes now doesn’t always behave the same, as Inkscape tries to detect whether you want the result to be a straight line connecting the nodes, or whether you want the result to be a round and smooth curve.
Pinned colors in palette
- We’re working hard to help you find the colors you need to succeed.
Choose and pin the most important colors from a palette and keep them at your fingertips.
Then unpin the ones you don’t need. Customize the size of the color swatches, too.
This is practical when you’ve got a project with a specific color palette to respect.
Additionally, the new shortcut F hides all canvas overlays and anything outside the page, so you can check your results and see what’s going to be printed.
Paste on page
- Now you can copy and paste an object from one page to another one and it’ll land in the same position.
This is terrific when building templates and presentations or clones for animation using Inkscape.
Filter editor overhaul:
The Filters dialog automatically changes layout on resizing
- This dialog has seen much love and is now easier to use.
You’ll appreciate the pop-up menu when applying a filter to your selection and searching for certain effects, like blur.
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1.2.2
Crash fixes
- Inkscape no longer freezes the whole desktop when rotating objects with snapping activated under certain conditions (Bug Inbox#7534, Bug Inbox#7838, MR #4877).
- Converting an object with a stroke set as 'unset' / 'none', but with markers on the non-existing stroke, no longer leads to a crash (Bug #3879, MR #4815).
General
- Symbols that contain a clipping path or mask no longer cause the Symbols dialog to create a high processor load (Bug #3607, MR #4567).
- The keyboard shortcut that is meant to scale the selection by 1 screen pixel now does so again (Bug #3799, MR#4818).
- Raster images that are opened with Inkscape now end up in the page area even when the document origin is set to the bottom left corner (MR #4866, Bug #3939).
- Dithering (for smooth gradients) is now disabled by default (even if it was enabled before you update to 1.2.2), because it was causing a loss of performance while drawing (MR #4816).
Dialogs
- The 'Export' and 'Align and distribute' dialogs are no longer confused about what area to export / what type of item to align (MR #4800, Bug #3847, Bug #2732, Bug #3591).
- In the same dialog, tooltips now reliably show up when hovering over any of the buttons (Bug #3585, MR #4571).
- Clarified wording of an option shown when importing SVG files (MR #4525).
Import / Export
- OpenClipart import option is now available on Windows and in the AppImage, and the potentially missing Python library BeautifulSoup is now a recommended package for Debian packaging (Bug #3674, MR #4858)
Several issues in the DXF14 export have been fixed
- Documents with non-uniform scale are exported correctly (Bug extensions#388, Bug extensions#498, MR extensions#510).
- When importing a DXF file created by Inkscape into Fusion 360, the warning message about missing units is gone now (given the SVG document uses "real-world" units such as mm or in).
- A leftover debug message was removed (Bug extensions#494, MR extensions#510).
- The TIFF export now supports transparency (Bug extensions#478, MR extensions#485).
- DPI attribute is preserved for JPG and TIFF raster export (Bug extensions#484, MR extensions#485).
- PNG files now use the correct file permissions on Linux (previously, exported files were only accessible to the user who created them, which caused problems when doing web development) (Bug #2574, MR #4874)
Styles
- Saving markers that are compatible to SVG 1.1 now works for both marker direction and marker color at once (MR #4828, Bug #3913).
- Objects with hairline strokes no longer lose that style when grouping or pasting (MR #4821, Bug #3643).
- Filtered objects whose filters make use of the 'Morphology' filter are no longer cut off (Bug #3821, MR #4895).
Tools
- The Measure tool now indicates correct positions and sizes for shapes (stars, spirals, rectangles) (Bug #1367, Bug inbox#7732, MR #4678). Additionally, the default unit now corresponds to the display unit when using the tool for the first time.
Note about snap packages
- It is no longer possible to install the Inkscape snap with the --classic option. If you need functionality that is unavailable in the standard snap package (being able to add custom filter packs, custom extensions communicating with other programs on the system / requiring system-wide dependencies, …), please choose a different packaging format.
Windows-specific Fixes
- Extensions Manager and Clipart import work again on Windows. This fix was already available in 1.2.1, if you downloaded it after July 19 (Bug #3695, MR #4653).
- The Text tool no longer crashes when selecting some specific fonts that have been installed multiple times in different file formats (Bug #7354, MR #4658).
- Inkscape 1.2.2 can now be built for Windows on Arm (MR#4693).
Command line
- Trailing or duplicate semicolons no longer cause an action list command to fail (Bug #3480, MR #4714).
Improvements for development / deployment
- Automated Windows builds work again (MR #4744, MR #4884, Bug #3859).
- Windows builds succeed again in CLANG64 environments (MR #4153).
Extension bug fixes
- Bugfixes in particular extensions
- Color extensions can work on patterns again (Bug extensions#483, MR extensions#483).
- The extension Render > Barcode > QR Code can now create QR codes with sharp edges (as opposed to slightly rounded edges as previously) even when using the extension from inside Inkscape (as opposed to from the command line) (Bug extensions#491, MR extensions#494).
- The Hershey Text extension now warns about manual kerning instead of crashing (Bug extensions#456, MR extensions#489).
- Saving a self-made font as SVG font using Extensions > Typography > 3 - Convert Glyph Layers to SVG Font now works again when one of the characters is the apostrophe (single quote) character (Bug extensions#487, MR extensions#487).
Improvements that apply to all extensions
- If a malformed SVG document is fed into an extension, the user is warned about it instead of causing an extension crash (Bug extensions#465, MR extensions#496
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1.2.1
Crash fixes
- Fixed a crash when …
- … double-clicking on a 3D box and one when panning, then switching to 3D box tool (Bug #3538, MR #4535)
- … the option 'Check attributes and style properties on Editing' was enabled and the document was edited while there was additional whitespace inside group items in the SVG code (Bug #2799, Bug inbox#4580, Bug #7148, MR #4535)
- … converting an LPE path (e.g. when exporting to PDF) to a normal object when the original path was corrupted (Bug #3599, MR #4535)
- … ungrouping a clipped object that had been created with the option "Put all clipped/masked objects into one group" enabled (Bug #3616, MR #4564)
- … ungrouping while the Export dialog is open (Bug #3638, MR #4564)
General
- Fixed loss of drawing data (saved in defs section of the SVG, like filters, masks, clips, gradients, ...) occurring when performing the sequence copy-paste-undo with the Export dialog open, which only became obvious after saving and reloading the file (Bug #3600, MR #4564)
- Fixed Inkscape freezing when starting with many fonts installed and the Text and Font dialog open (MR #4491)
- Fixed accented characters in context menus for input fields in non-English languages on Windows (Bug #3152, MR #4535)
- Added back the ability to set a keyboard shortcut for swapping fill and stroke paint of an object (Bug #3502, MR #4535)
- Aligning objects using keyboard shortcuts now respects the current 'Relative to' setting from the "Align and Distribute" dialog (Bug #3581, MR #4564)
- When there are no recently used files to show, a text tells you about it now instead of the submenu just remaining empty (Bug #2962, MR #4535)
- Fixed some translation markup typos (MR #4555)
- Fixed inverted alignment of page with 'Resize page to selection', and of objects bottom/top edges using the buttons in the Alignment dialog when the document y-axis points up (Bug #3609, Bug #3613, MR #4566)
- Fixed guide direction so perpendicular or tangential snapping only work if you let go when the guide is tangential (MR #4518)
- The page background opacity previously set is now respected when reopening the file (MR #4673, Bug #3536)
- Clicking on two different tool buttons in quick succession no longer opens preferences dialog (Bug #2537, MR #4564)
- Custom setting for the opacity of the drawing in outline overlay view mode is no longer lost when closing Inkscape (Bug #3651, MR #4557)
- Fixed a bug with ungrouping clipped objects (MR #4429)
- Scaling the pattern object for a "Pattern along Path" path effect now affects the resulting size again (Bug #3663, MR #4576, MR #4538)
- The warning message "WHOOPS... this does really happen" no longer happens on the command line (MR #4621)
- When dragging and zooming, there should be fewer rendering artifacts now (MR #4607)
- Rendering should be a little bit smoother now on Windows and macOS (MR #4636)
Dialogs
- The Export button is no longer greyed out for the next export, when an export options dialog was canceled while batch exporting (Bug #3605, MR #4535)
- Some stock markers in the Fill and Stroke dialog could not be selected or had an invalid id value (MR #4564)
PDF Export
- Rasterized (filtered) objects that are not on the first page of a multipage document now show up in exported PDF files (Bug #3628, MR #4564)
- Stray markers no longer show up unexpectedly in exported PDF files (MR #4621, Bug #3566)
- Marker colors are no longer changed to black in some special cases in exported PDF files (MR #4621, Bug #3489)
Themes
- Text that was dark blue on dark background with a dark theme in the Keyboard shortcuts preferences and the Text and Font dialog is now readable (bold instead of different color) (Bug #910, MR #4535, MR #4580)
Tools
- Fixed the size of the text background for the measurements created by the Measurement tool when converting a measurement to objects (Bug #3412, MR #4535)
- The Circle and 3D Box tools work again when using Inkscape in Czech language on Linux (Bug #3571, MR #4535)
Windows-specific Fixes
- Installer images updated to represent correct Inkscape version (Bug #3513, MR #4534)
Improvements for development / deployment
- Translation files are now always generated automatically and available for download
Bugfixes in particular extensions
- Parts of a LaTeX formula no longer become invisible when running the pdflatex extension multiple times (Bug extensions#475, MR extensions#477)
- A few typos in the pdflatex extension have been fixed (MR extensions#475)
- The help messages and tooltips of the Interpolate, Restack and Extrude extensions have been improved (MR extensions#471)
Improvements that apply to all extensions
- Unnecessary deprecation warnings have been addressed (MR extensions#476).
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1.2
- Inkscape documents can now hold multiple pages, which are managed by the new Page tool
- Editable markers and dash patterns
- Layers and objects dialog merged
- On-canvas alignment snapping and Snap settings redesign
- New 'Tiling' Live Path Effect
- Redesigned Export dialog with preview and ability to select objects/layers/pages and even multiple file formats to export to
- Import SVG images from Open Clipart, Wikimedia Commons and other online sources
- Selectable object origin for numerical scaling and moving
- All alignment options in a single dialog
- Gradient editing in the Fill and Stroke dialog
- Gradient dithering
- SVG Font Editor updated
- Flowing text around shapes and text padding
- Convenience Boolean operation for splitting paths
- Configurable Tool bar, continuous icon scaling and many more new customization options
- Performance gains for many parts of the interface and many different functions
- Lots of improvements to the user interface
- Numerous crash & bug fixes in the main Inkscape program and in in the stock extensions.
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1.1.2
General
- Fixed Windows test builds, so testers can again try out intermediate versions (MR #3762
- Fixed building Inkscape with GCC 12 / C++17 (MR #3683)
- Fixed building Inkscape with Poppler 21.11.0, e.g. on Slackware Linux (MR #3636, Bug #2906)
- Toolbar fields now use the units the user selected as display units (in Document preferences) again (MR #3716, Bug #1747)
- Mouse cursors for tools are now completely visible, no matter how transparent the currently selected color is (MR #3640, Bug #2025)
- Graphic tablet pens that have a built-in eraser tip now again automatically switch to the correct tool (MR 3636, Bug #2866)
- On macOS, the system menu now uses the correct language and menu decorations look better on systems with non-English locales (MR #3531)
- When clicking on the color indicator in the bottom left corner, the Fill and Stroke dialog will now open again (Bug #2621, MR #3754)
- Multiple untranslatable strings are now translatable (MR #3918, Bug #2492, Bug #2279, Bug #809)
- When automatically converting text to path on the commandline for export, differently formatted text parts no longer lose their styling (MR #3918, Bug #2602)
- Clones/symbols/glyphs are now positioned correctly relative to each other when pasting them into a new document (MR #3922, Bug #387)
- Copy-pasting an object with a Live Path Effect repeatedly into a new document now pastes the current object, not an outdated one (MR #3922, Bug #1743)
- Linking an additional path to the Measure Path LPE as a projection target works again (MR #3922, Bug #3035)
- Saving files with markers as SVG1.1 results in valid markers again (MR #3942, Bug #2785)
Dialogs
- Filter editor: The standard deviation for Gaussian blur can now be 0, if there is no blur (MR #3650, Bug #2724)
Themes
- win32 theme now contains expand/collapse arrows for expandable lists (MR #3636, Bug #2876)
- win32 theme offers improved contrast when hovering over text (MR #3550)
- win32 theme context menu border looks better now (MR #3550)
- win32 theme offers improved contrast when hovering over text (MR #3550)
Text tool
- Font dropdown now updates when changing font for the same text multiple times through the dropdown menu (MR #3731, Bug #2056)
- Line spacing works again with current Pango versions (e.g. 1.49) as used on Fedora Linux (MR #3717, Bug #2864)
- Line spacing now always stays the same when only changing the line height units (MR #3640, Bug #2465)
- Unicode mode now accepts numbers entered with numpad keys (a bug with a long beard, reported in 2014! MR #3716, Launchpad Bug #1394559
- Copied style no longer includes the shape of a flowed text and some other text positioning data, which caused all kinds of strange behavior (MR #3899, Bug #2807)
Fixed a crash when
- … grouping / ungrouping / importing / pasting a 3D box or after doing so and editing it (MR #3731, Bug #2833)
- … trying to add the "Measure segments" Live Path Effect to a path with empty / one-node subpaths (MR #3636, Bug #2725)
- … running inkscape --actions=action-list on the command line if Inkscape has been built with DBUS support (MR #3636, Bug #2813)
- … exporting to a raster image file with a file name that contains non-ASCII characters (MR #3784, Bug #2548)
- … importing an SVG file that contains a 3D box (MR #3592, Bug #2881)
- … pressing Backspace while using the Bezier tool (MR #3715, Bug #2764)
- … selecting Other locations in the Open/Save/Import dialog, with the preview active (MR #3786, Bug #2549)
- … dragging a guide line off the canvas to delete it (MR #3899, Bug #3084)
- … starting Inkscape with the Icon Preview panel open on Wayland (Bug #3047, MR #3937)
- … copying nodes if there is a Bend LPE in the clipboard (MR #3942)
- … (freeze) when changing the document's license while the Selectors and CSS dialog is open (MR #3939, Bug #2700)
Crash fixes
- A crash in the 'Seamless Pattern' extension has been fixed (MR extensions#367)
- A crash in the 'Win32 Vector Print' extension has been fixed (MR extensions#393, Bug extensions#249)
- A crash in extensions that try to access the user's current selection with files containing comments (MR extensions#372, Bug extensions#369)
- Very large documents with deeply nested groups no longer cause extensions to fail when trying to look up a root element (Bug extensions#429, MR extensions#376, Commit extensions#be7e96)
- Very large documents no longer cause extensions to freeze while it's searching for free object ids (MR extensions#348, Bug extensions#378)
- The Hershey Text extension no longer fails if a text has the style attribute line-height:normal; (MR extensions#302, Bug #361)
- The GCodetools Plasma extension now generates GCode again (MR extensions#388, Bug extensions#276)
- Exporting as HTML5 Canvas no longer fails when the drawing contains a text put on a path (but the text is ignored) (MR extensions#318, Bug extensions#292)
Bugfixes in particular extensions
- The Symbols option for 'Barcode' works now (MR extensions#395, Bug extensions#150)
- The space character in the 'Braille' text extension now has the correct width (Bug extensions#410)
- The Voronoi extension now properly respects the page boundaries (MR extensions#382, Bug extensions#403)
- Cell sizes and stroke width in the Voronoi extension allow entering larger values now (MR extensions#356)
- Mockups created with the Interactive Mockup extension work correctly with current browsers again (MR extensions#405)
- The Web Slicer extension now exports images again (Bug extensions#267, MR extensions#406)
- When importing a DXF file, polylines are now included (MR extensions#338)
- Help texts for paper thickness in the Perfect bound cover bookcover making extension were improved (MR extensions#304, Bug extensions#265)
- The Scatter extension now places objects at the correct positions again (MR extensions#323, MR extensions#323)
- The tangential (along path direction) offset for scattered objects is now defined in % of pattern object length (MR extensions#323)
- Help texts in 'Scatter' and 'Pattern along Path' extensions simplified (MR extensions#378)
- Formulas rendered by LaTeX (pdflatex) now more reliably give the correct result (MR extensions#349)
- The JessyInk keybindings dialog now better fits on the screen (MR extensions#340, Bug extensions#261, MR extensions#380)
Improvements that apply to all extensions
- The file chooser in extensions can no longer accidentally choose a directory instead of a file (MR #3716, Bug #2822)
- Compact float notation (such as 1.2 .3 ) in paths is now supported for all extensions (MR extensions#385)
- Extensions that call external programs no longer mangle texts with special characters on systems that do not use UTF-8 encoding (MR extensions#363)
Improvements for development / deployment
- Developer documentation improvements (Commit extensions#636109)
- Installation metadata updates (MR extensions#369)
- Fixes for the automatical testing on GitLab (MR #369)
- Extension test suite improvements for many of the fixed bugs
Translations
- The following UI translations received updates:
- Brazilian Portuguese
- Catalan
- Croatian
- Czech
- German
- Greek
- Hungarian
- Lithuanian
- Romanian
- Russian
- Simplified Chinese
- Slovenian
- Traditional Chinese
- Spanish
- Ukrainian
Documentation
- Documentation is now built with current Inkscape and Python 3. The tutorial files make use of SVG2 flowed text (MR docs#3531)
- Translation statistics show correct version number (Commit 4eb6a4)
- Documentation for how to generate and write documentation updated (Commit docs-069f69; Commit docs-53f93c)
- Man page export area description improved (Commit docs-72b2a8)
- Added two XML editor shortcuts to keyboard shortcut reference (Commit docs-a47008, Bug docs#55)
- Broken translation files now cause the documentation generation to abort (Commit docs-f3f16d, Bug docs#37)
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